Best Midwestern German Fries With Sausage Gravy Recipes

MIDWESTERN GERMAN FRIES WITH SAUSAGE GRAVY

Steps:

• Slice the potatoes into thin slices. Fry potatoes, onion and green pepper in butter in a large skillet.
• Once the potatoes are fried to your liking, add the beaten eggs. Stir mixture and cook until the eggs are done.
• While the potato mixture is cooking, brown the pound of sausage in another skillet breaking up the sausage into small chunks.
• Once the sausage is completely cooked, mix the milk and flour together until smooth and add to the sausage. Cook over medium-high heat until the sausage gravy thickens.
• Serve the sausage gravy over the German Fries.

SAVORY SAUSAGE GRAVY

Steps:

• In a large skillet or pan over medium heat, cook sausage, mushrooms, onion, and garlic until sausage is no longer pink.
• Drain fat off of sausage mixture (if you use a chicken or turkey sausage there may be very little or no fat at all to drain off).
• Stir in flour and sugar until sausage mixture is well coated.
• Gradually add milk, stirring constantly.
• Continue to cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until gravy thickens, about 5 minutes.
• Remove from heat and stir in black pepper, nutmeg, and basil.
• Serve hot over your favorite biscuits or toast.

BUCKEYES-SOME LIKE 'EM COLD (AND WITHOUT WAX)

Steps:

• Cook time is freeze time.
• Mix first 4 ingredients together in big bowl. (use your stand mixer if you have one to make the work easier).
• Wash hands and roll mixed dough into quarter or smaller size balls (we prefer them smaller than bigger -- they are more pop-able that way!). This recipe will make 5-6 dozen nickel size ones.
• Method #1 --.
• Place the balls on a big cookie sheet covered with wax paper. Stick a toothpick into each one. Set in freezer to firm up. After they are thoroughly chilled and working with 10 or so out of the freezer at a time, take a toothpick and dip into the chilled balls halfway into melted chocolate OR --.
• Method #2 --.
• Don't put toothpicks in, chill the balls in the freezer and let them harden up. With a small spoon, dip some melted chocolate bark over each ball trying to cover the end and maybe half way down. Let them harden up and then --.
• Either method you choose, store in an air tight container IN THE FREEZER. Trust me -- they are best this way.

LEWIS' MIDWESTERN SAUSAGE GRAVY

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir sausage, olive oil, pepper, and sage in the hot skillet until sausage is browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Stir flour into sausage mixture until thoroughly mixed. Pour milk into sausage mixture and reduce heat to medium-low. Cook, stirring frequently, for 5 minutes. Reduce heat to low, cover skillet with a lid, and cook, stirring occasionally, until gravy is thickened, about 10 minutes.